The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (Commentary)
Why would one of poetry’s most revered voices want to curate a jazz saxophonist’s album of gospel hymns and spirituals? “These songs are so important,” says Nikki Giovanni, one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends” and a Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2017. “They comforted people through times of slavery, and during recent years we needed them ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Main Offender (2021 Deluxe Edition Remaster)
Keith Richards führt die Wiederveröffentlichung seines Solokatalogs fort und veröffentlicht sein zweites Studioalbum "Main Offender" neu, mit brandneuem Remaster und einem Livealbum aus 1992. Mit „Main Offender“ legt Keith Richards nun das nächste Glanzstück aus seiner umfangreichen Schatzsammlung vor, das auf den Release des im vergangenen Jahr erschienenen „Live At The Hollywood Palladium“ und das 2019 veröffentlichte, ...
“Main Offender,” the second solo album by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, was released in 1992. To mark the record’s 30th anniversary, BMG is re-releasing “Main Offender”. Beyond the original album, which has been remastered for the re-release, the deluxe versions also include the previously unreleased concert “Winos Live In London ‘92”. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a complete series of recordings devoted to Mozart's solo concertos. The best soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 KV 216, Bassoon Concerto KV 191 & Piano Concerto No. 5 KV 175
The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a complete series of recordings devoted to Mozart's solo concertos. The best soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
New Works Reflecting the Moment (Live from the SFJAZZ Center 2021)
All-star ensemble presents new music addressing racial injustices, the global pandemic, and more. Including new versions of Marvin Gaye's "Whats Going On", Abbey Lincoln's "Throw it Away," "Lift Every Voice & Sing," and others. An all-star ensemble comprising the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today, the Collective has ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 2-4
Mieczysław Weinberg (Polish: Wajnberg) wrote his first string quartet in May 1937. In autumn 1939, he made his way in dramatic circumstances to the Soviet Union, and there, exempted from military service due to poor health, he was given the chance to continue his training in ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Gershwin Country: a brand-new album from the GRAMMY®- and Emmy-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein, who reimagines the classic songs of George and Ira Gershwin through the contemporary lens of country music. Executive produced by his longtime friend and collaborator Liza Minnelli, the album pairs Feinstein with some of the ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898–1937), Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
Dark, grungy, and beautifully intense: The Mysterines’ debut album Reeling, has a way of creating an atmosphere for the darkest corners of Rock‘n’Roll, right from the distorted opening of ‘Life’s A Bitch (But I Like It So Much)’. It’s the kind of music that you want to hear in the basement of a rock club, packed into a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Palatín belonged to a musical line that dates back to the 18th century and among whose members we find, for example, the creator of the first Spanish musical dictionary. He was born in 1852 in Seville (Spain). From a young age he showed great musical talent and mastery of the violin, so it was considered when he was ...
Composer: Fernando Palatin (1852-1927)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album celebrates dance music, from waltz to tango, from slow foxtrot to quickstep, from samba to jive. Seventy years of music rooted in the 1920s, assembled by the enthusiastic musicians of the Ludwig Orchestra, who have taken to playing them at festivals, alongside their usual programmes devoted to ...
Composer: Glenn Miller (1904-1944), Pablo Beltran Ruiz (1915-2008), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Barry Manilow (1943), George Hamilton Green (1893-1970), Robert Stolz (1880-1975), John Schönberger (1892-1983), Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Frederick Loewe (1901-1988), Wingy Manone (1900-1982), Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Brahms was one of the first composers to write for pairs of violins, violas and cellos, blazing the trail for Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Korngold and Schoenberg. His two sextets are early works, composed in 1860 and 1865 respectively. Brahms wrote to his publisher that the second was in ‘the same joyful vein’ as the first. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Eine schöne Welt ist da versunken: Balladen, Legenden und Lieder von Martin Plüddemann
Martin Pluddemann was a pivotal figure in the revival and modernization of the art of ballad composition. He revered Carl Loewe and Richard Wagner and this confluence of influences allowed him to explore the close relationship between ballad, opera, and music drama, not least through the use of ...
Composer: Martin Plüddemann (1854-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The piano pieces on this release, all of them, show the lushness of aromas, colors, and reflections of prodigal lands in the production of artistic sensations. One could speak of landscapes in which the human element is present; the voice of a folk tradition which longs to express it's most intimate essence, ...
Composer: Mily Balakireff (1837-1910), Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924), Aleksandre Machavariani (1913-1995), Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Alessio Pianelli's debut album is a beautifully curated, affectionate, and eclectic musical tribute to his native land, the island of Sicily. "For A Sicilian Traveller, I investigated the richness of Sicily's culture through the music of other composers who have explored - some more explicitly than others - that central aspect in the tradition of art music. ...
Composer: Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925-1991), Komitas (1869-1935), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949), Alessio Pianelli (1989)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Cleveland Calling, Pt.2 (Remastered)
‘Cleveland Calling PT. 2’ is an unreleased radio session recovered from the depths of the Rory Gallagher archives. This recording features Rory and his band playing 7 songs live in an empty Cleveland Agora venue for WNCR Radio. This release follows the RSD 2020 release ‘Cleveland Calling’ (No.2 on the Billboard Blues chart) ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Eine Ode an die Frauen! Oder ganze elf Stück davon! Direkt nach der erfolgreichen Veröffentlichung von Inglorious' viertem Studioalbum "We Will Ride" im Februar 2021, ihrem ersten mit der neuen Besetzung, ging die Band zurück ins Studio, um ein ganz besonderes neues Album aufzunehmen. Die neue Veröffentlichung der aufstrebenden britischen ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35
It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. ... It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. ..
Composer: Carl Frühling (1868-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door
Out of chaos, the universe emerged, and from chaos a person can emerge, too. Kristine Leschper isn’t being hyperbolic when she describes a sensation of “being born” when a culmination of events, both personal and global, catalyzed in her “an understanding of how to relinquish control in a big way, and from that, a new sense of ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
"For most of the 20th century, the two giants of Hungarian music were Bartok and Kodaly. Following his explosion on the international scene in the mid-60s, Gyorgi Ligeti, a student of Kodaly, was added to that list. Kodaly was one of the most significant early figures in the field of ethnomusicology. ...
Composer: Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
David Briggs ist ein international anerkannter Organist, dessen Darbietungen für ihre Musikalität, Virtuosität und die Fähigkeit, ein Publikum aller Altersgruppen zu begeistern und zu fesseln, gefeiert werden. David Briggs ist derzeit Artist-in-Residence an der Kathedrale von St. John the Divine in New York City. Er ist nicht nur als Interpret, sondern auch als Arrangeur von Orchesterwerken für die Orgel ...
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
